Aeon Scientific, a biomedical engineering company, impressed the judges with its robot-controlled surgical system, which can be used to treat cardiac arrhythmia quickly and safely.

Dr Roberto Trotta has been named as a Global Thinker by the international politics magazine, Foreign Policy, for his book 'The Edge of the Sky.

Professor Graham Davies, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics at King’s College London, was presented with the 2014 United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday 20 November in Nottingham.

From 2015, first-year undergraduates at TU Berlin will have an option to start studying without choosing a degree subject. A new “orientation year” will include a class in entrepreneurship, and coursework flexibility will give students more responsibility for their choices

Critical infrastructure systems are the backbone of society and ever growing in complexity and interconnectedness. A new research programme kicked off at the Singapore-ETH Centre strives to increase their robustness and resilience.

Three university centres in Barcelona have been chosen to work for six months on a CERN initiative. CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

The awards ceremony kicked off the Academic Summit at Aalto University.

A £4 million mini-factory for developing the next generation of miniaturised medical devices and robots officially opened this week.

The energy revolution can be achieved: this was the general tenor of the ETH Zurich Climate Roundtable held on Wednesday. However, this will require new technologies and innovation must be promoted accordingly. But the form that state regulatory intervention should take was the subject of controversial debate.